Via Daily Dharma

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The Origin of Philosophy | September 11, 2014

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The origin of philosophy is wonder. It’s a sense of being astonished, a sense of waking up to the fact that you’re here rather than not here. And I would take that also to be what the Buddha was awakened to on seeing a sick person, an old person, a corpse. 

 

- Stephen Batchelor, "Going Back to the Source"